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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL.  Even if that freshman class at football is amazing (and I'll bet everything that it's not), you need several classes of football players to turn a program around.  It's not like basketball where 1-2 kids can change everything (that's what Sidwell did - they brought into 2-3 AAU kids and now the basketball team is respectable).

I look forward to seeing how they fare this coming.  It can't be any worse.[/quote]

A couple of points on basketball, as a recent poster seems to be beating the drum on the idea Sidwell has shipped in transfers en masse: (1) the best boy's  Sidwell player has been there since middle school; (2) one of this year's few new players is the son of a Sidwell faculty member; and (3) Sidwell would need to do a whole lot more recruiting to scratch the surface of what goes on in the IAC (Bullis and Episcopal have foreign players; Georgetown Prep and occasionally STA use their dorm to house out-of-the-area players; Landon recruits for basketball big time, etc).  (I have ties to an IAC school but know families with children on the Sidwell basketball team and thus know the composition of their team.)

Philosophically it's interesting: people criticize Sidwell for not having big time sports but also take shots at them when they do have Future Division I caliber athletes.  I can take or leave some of the Sidwell parents I've met -- the ones who are kind of aggressively whiny and entitled -- but it does seem like many people are looking to find fault with a top-notch school.  (Landon too seems to bring out the angry posters.)

Lastly, many appear to believe that "sports at Sidwell" translates to boys' sports only.  Unlike the boys' schools who are the true sports' powerhouses in this area, Sidwell is a co-Ed school with a correspondingly limited pool of male athletes and a strong tradition of producing some top female athletes.  Compared with co-Ed schools of similar enrollment, Sidwell is doing just fine.[/quote]

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